Having had experience with forms of coding I do sympathise with the complexities you’ve no doubt been thoroughly investigating during the past few years. I appreciate your interest in our products and willingness to put in the effort to learn them in detail.
Now that we know that it is used so much for walls, I agree that we need to make these types of fixes a higher priority.
We thought it would be used more to model elements such as lumber, steel members, and other objects where it is not very important to account for the reduction in area from holes. We did not know this would be the case when we designed the plugin. Over the years, we have noticed that that Profile Builder is being used extensively by our users to create simple walls. We do still hope to improve this in a future update, and I am sorry that it has taken so long for this to be improved.įor rectangular prismatic walls and simple rectangular holes, it does not seem so complex a problem…but when you consider that Profile Builder is designed to support any shape of profile, any shape of hole with any orientation, I hope you can understand why this is not a simple fix for us. This issue was noticed by a user and addressed by the developers in 2019 (2 years ago): Possible issue with Quantifier Pro for SketchUp - YouTube Unfortunately, when you use the built in “hole” tool to make openings (known as deductibles in construction), Quantifier Pro does not notice this change. I hope the video below helps to understand this issue, but in summary, when you build a wall from Profile builder, then use Quantifier Pro to associate costs, all works well. I spent many an hour understanding the principles of Profile Builder 3, I then spent many more understanding Quantifier Pro.įamiliar with both, I then went to use it on a live project and immediately came across a serious fault with Quantifier Pro, that does not make it a feasible package for real life use. I was very keen to be able to create estimates for actual building work.
Like many, I’m very keen to see if my drawing work can be used as much as possible, so I investigated Profile Builder 3 and consequently Quantifier Pro (made by the same company).
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